Here's what everyone's missing, and I'll use streamers as an example.
If a streamer doesn't receive any form of tip throughout their stream, they wouldn't conclude the platform is broken, and they wouldn't stop creating content. They would continue, streaming daily.
Eventually those tips start pouring in. Now they have a supportive following/return customers. All that work with low pay was worth it.
Now, if you add in our model here. Staking tokens and voting is the same as the tips they've grown accustomed to earning. However, those tips are sporadic and the revenue stream is all over the place. Up and down.
That consumer can stake tokens and vote. Now the streamers support is spread out and consistent, daily. Plus that consumer isn't actually spending money. All they've done is shifted money over from their bank account to their Hive wallet. They're no longer spending money to support a content creator but instead earning money to support a content creator.
Due to the fact this is a phenomenal deal, more people are encouraged to provide support naturally. Now the streamer has a following consisting of far more regular paying supporters. And if one decides they've had enough, they can leave, have their money back or go support someone else; streamer continues and hardly notices they're gone because five more showed up.
Traditionally, nobody can afford to support a content creator with cash tips, daily. Since content creators work daily, this method is far more future friendly.
Now, when you have thousands of creators attracting millions of supporters, you're going to have a really hard time keeping that token value at 40 cents. Demand causes consistent rise in value because all consumer money is locked into this ecosystem rather than coming in as cash tips then leaving as cash tips. Now the streamer is making even more money and they can actually cash out instead of being told to go around and leave comments under posts and engage with others to gain support, only to be viewed as a traitor if they actually cash out and pay themselves.
That's what everyone is missing out on by sticking to the way things are. And you don't need a boss to get that ball rolling. Just need a few people to be able to understand what I'm saying and doing it for themselves.
Consumers double as investors while actual investors see a business model worth investing in. All this is just sitting on the table and could start happening today if people wanted.
By keeping things the way they are and have been for a number of years, yeah, you're right, there's nothing to invest in. And oddly enough, everything I just brought up is only one small part of what Hive actually is. Get those consumers here and even those games see a boom. Interest spills over onto everything else. All this place needs to do is open the blinds and look outside.